Tradescant Collection

This
web site is intended to highlight a number of the objects surviving
from the Tradescant collection and to place them in their historical
and intellectual context. Information regarding these objects is here
reproduced from the catalogue entitled Tradescant's
Rarities, published by the Clarendon Press in 1983. This information
includes references from the original printed catalogue of 1656, entitled
Musaeum Tradescantianum, and from the
Ashmolean manuscript catalogues of 1685 (AMS 8 and AMS 18, otherwise
known as 1685A and 1685B).

Credits

Text: David Berry
Web: Jonathan Moffett

Image: Tradescant Crest
as illustrated in the Musaeum Tradescantianum
(it is also used as the background to the main text)